It's no secret that practically every Web page we visit is infested with trackers. On its own, that would be bad enough. But most trackers are used in order to…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78AF0YFX210 Letters between the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Senator Ron Wyden confirm that the United States government has used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect web…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YypJ00pNk4 U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) has filed a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that highlights their ongoing plans to create a facial recognition database with mugshots of all non-US…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOThP5YFSBw The Amazon Sidewalk program has officially launched in the United States: and it's opt-out. Amazon Sidewalk turns your home's Amazon Alexa device into a bridge device - a router…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mjGCsleds For the second time in a week, demonstrations took place across France against a new "Global Security Law". The proposed legislation would bring in wide-ranging police surveillance in France,…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been in hot water and under investigation by its oversight body for buying location information on American citizens without a warrant. Motherboard has seen…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbXSF_TmTA Back in July last year, this blog wrote about Amazon's Ring series, whose key product is a small Internet-connected camera built into a doorbell. At that time, it was…
Google is being sued by individuals that allege that the company uses cellular data without permission to send information back to Google. Google is facing a lawsuit that highlights just…
Some default Apple apps on MacOS Big Sur bypass any VPN or firewall rules set by the user to send information like what programs you run back to Apple. Namely,…
As this blog has frequently noted, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) plays a crucial role in the privacy world. It not only creates protections for privacy online in…